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This map of community media outlets in the New York metro area is part of the Center for Community Media’s 2021 NYC Elections Initiative to:

support community media in deepening and expanding their coverage of local and citywide elections, and
connect community-based publishers with prospective advertisers in political campaigns, city government agencies, and voter education campaigns.

Political candidates, campaign staffers, and advertisers in city government and voter education organizations are welcome to explore the map and accompanying tables to find the outlets serving the communities and voters they’d like to reach. Media outlets can use the page to identify candidates relevant to their communities and geographic reach.

The locations of some outlets will be approximate.

The data comes from CCM’s Many Voices, One City directory of community outlets based in the metro area.

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The map can help you locate media outlets that serve communities with sizable populations in your area and that cover your geographic region. Rather than focusing on the outlets physically located within or near your area:

Use the Community filter to search by an ethnic community
Use the Geographic reach filter to see just the outlets that cover news and events pertaining to a borough or parts of a borough

To find the contact information for an outlet, go to the outlet’s website or search for the outlet in our community media directory.

To find what communities have large populations in your area:

Visit Population FactFinder from NYC Planning to see Hispanic and Asian subgroups (“Demographics” tab) and place of birth, language spoken at home and ancestry (“Social” tab) by approximations of neighborhoods and approximations of community districts (select “PUMA”).
For Asian populations, see this brief from the Asian American Federation which includes Asian ethnic groups by city council district.
To see the top languages spoken by council district, go to the New York City Council website and scroll down to “New York City’s Languages Map by Council District.”
Go to data.census.gov to see Hispanic and Asian subgroups by borough, as well as ancestry (does not include Staten Island).

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You can use the map and the “Candidates” tab to identify those running for public office in the regions your media outlet serves.

Map (tab):

Click on a city council district relevant to your community to see the candidates running
Type in an address, as exact as possible, to see what district it falls within

Candidates (tab):

Search for candidates by name or the office they are seeking whether that be local (city council, borough president, district attorney) or citywide (comptroller, public advocate, mayor)

If your media outlet is not on the map, search for the outlet in the community media directory. If it’s not there, complete this form to add it to the directory – please make sure to provide a mailing address or email CCM with an approximate address. If it is in the directory, please email CCM.

If the information listed for your outlet is incorrect or outdated, email CCM with the changes and we will update the details.